NAG Screen & Full Screen!

[M.A.M.E Power]

Ok I have the latest version of mame and the games fill the sides of the monitor but not the top and bottom. I have the mame.ini file stretch set to 1, so why are games not filling the complete screen?

Also the nag screen appears (the one about the use of roms) even though I have it set to 1 in the mame.ini file. I do not get the other warning screens.

I am running windows XP Pro with a 128mb graphics card and mamewah as my front end. I have a 19" monitor also.

I have done numerous searches but none of them seem to answer my question!


Have created a mame.ini file with the latest version of mame and it only has the option to turn off game info and not warning screens.



Suggestions please.

Lea

[Jae200]

I was just about to ask basically the same question. I've just about finished my cabinet and have a new computer on the way tomorrow and am wondering how to get rid of the 'nag screens' in Mame32.. Specifically, the one that says 'There are known problems with this game, Press OK'. Everytime that pops up I'm going to have to open the cabinet to get to the keyboard unless I wire up the O and K keys somewhere. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

Edit: Finally found the answer about wiggling the joystick.

[Farmboy90]

You can move the p1 joystick left then right to simulate the "OK".  So there is no need to open your cabinet and grab the keyboard.

There should never be a need anyway since you should be using a wireless keyboard. 

The only thing you can disable through the ini is the game info screen.  Game warnings as well as the disclaimer can no longer be turned off or on by the ini file.  That code was removed.

You could create .cfg files for every game in your system.  If the code sees this file it thinks you have played the game before and won't show the disclaimer.  However, this will NOT stop it from presenting the warnings screen (this screen says that sounds isn't accurate, video isn't accurate, cocktail flipping, etc).

The only way to remove those (and the easiest way in my opinion) is to just change the code and recompile your own version of mame.

[M.A.M.E Power]

I thought it must have changed - as I updated to a new version of mame and no could no longer get rid of the nag screen.

I guess the easiest way is to play each game and let the cfg folder build up?

Thanks for the reply.

Lea

[Farmboy90]

Yeah that will work, but again you can't get around the warnings screen.  The game info screen can be turned off, and the disclaimer will only show once, but it is the warnings screen ther bugs me.

My favorite is the "This game does not support cocktail flipping".  I have to look at that everytime on my UPRIGHT cab.

Well at least I did have to look at that.  Now I don't.  I changed the code. 

[SirPoonga]

Ok I have the latest version of mame and the games fill the sides of the monitor but not the top and bottom. I have the mame.ini file stretch set to 1, so why are games not filling the complete screen?

[M.A.M.E Power]

Ok Buddabings version of mame can bypass the various nag screens which is great.

I seem to be having trouble with the hwstretch function, it does not work with Budda's build - is this correct?

Further to Sirpoonga's point / the problem is as follows using the commandline version of mame the hwstretch function seems to work as it stretches the screen horizontal but not vertical. I am left with a large gap at the top and bottom of the screen - is this normal in some games (i.e street fighter).

I really like the ides of buddabing's build but as already mentioned the hwstretch function does not work.

Please help if you can!

Lea

[Pandemonium]

If you use GameEX as your front end, there is an option to bypass the nag screen which works great .

[M.A.M.E Power]

Guys

Am using Buddabing's mame build and it is working just fine.

The problem I am having now is that some games (Neo-Geo) ones run @ the correct resoultion (in that they fill the screen).

However some games (Capcom) are only taking up a small section of the screen - how is this corrected?

Any ideas on how to restore the correct resolution to these games?

Thanks

Lea

p.s Nag screens are gone.

[SlyDog]

OK I have had that annoying nag screens and finally got fed up.   And since they no longer have the option in mame to get rid of them I had to find my own option.   And I have to be honest I ain't to smart of a coder.  But I figured if you can change the mame.c areas and cheat you can get rid of the nag screen.   And behold it worked all i did was change two words in mame.c

the original settings are....

/* if we didn't find a settings file, show the disclaimer */
   if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || ui_display_copyright(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
   {
      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
      if (options.skip_warnings || ui_display_game_warnings(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
      {
         /* show info about the game */
         if (options.skip_gameinfo || ui_display_game_info(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)

What I did was change skip_disclaimer - skip_gameinfo and then changed skip_warnings - skip_gameinfo

Now basically what i am gathering is when you set skip_gameinfo to on  you will skip all nag screens.   and testing with known "warning games" (galaga) I get no nagging warning.   I hope this helps it was pretty easy considering i don't know what i am doing

[Farmboy90]

THat is exactly what you did - turn off all nag screens with on flag - namely skip_gameinfo.

There are many ways to solve this problem as yours works fine.  I actually added back the code that supported the other two flags.  I figured if I was playing a game and something was weird I would like to know if I encountered a bug or if the game has known problems and I didn't know it because I avoided the screens.

But your way will work just fine. too 

[SlyDog]

Yeah it seems to get the job done.  Makes my screensavers better when i set them to launch random game every 5 min. Hated the "you are not authorized blah blah blah" on my screensaver.  And like i mentioned i ain't exactly the smartest coder so i just figured this would trick it.   Figured if this N00b can do it anyone can.. It's just like my fav type of woman... easy

[Howard_Casto]

A non-invasive approach is to simply write an ahk script that presses "left left right" once mame has launched.  The extra left is for games that have chd errors (this rom does not match, press any key to contnue). 

People have been hacking in the command line switches for ages but if that's the only thing I needed in my custom build, I wouldn't bother.